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I’ve got food on my plate, my bills are paid, I have a permanent home. What else is there? LOOK UP AND OUTWARD I’m lucky in that I can look up, but that wasn’t always true. I spent most of my adult life worrying about paying my bills, keeping a roof over my head and…

Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer – Garrison Keillor fercrissake. And we are still waiting on figures from political life – Conyers, Franken, Moore – and Trump. Men who reach these positions of power have something inside them – drive. A deep desire to succeed in life. And it seems to go along with sexual…

My hubby found this TED Talk a few days ago. He sent me the link, and it’s scared the piss out of me. If media companies can manipulate consumers at the micro level, what does this mean? Really mean? Oh, you might say, “But I have ad-blockers, and they keep companies from using such targeted…

I remember sitting and watching the movie on TV. The great Danny Kaye holding forth as the fictional Max Feldman, a holocaust survivor. I remember thinking “didn’t we defeat the Nazis in World War 2? Why are they still around?” They are still around. And we’ve forgotten that they should have no voice here. The…

Plans can come together in so many ways, but mostly they work when people actively labor towards goals. In this case, the Koch Brothers have gotten parts of their long standing goal – to get a federal government in place that will downsize, downsize, downsize. More legroom for business to grow, more wiggle room for…

Its interesting how your thinking gets manipulated. Consider this photo of 2 versions of the Wall Street Journal from today… (EDIT: Not all together what you see either – someone else decided to manipulate the public! http://www.snopes.com/wsj-different-trump-headlines/) Image courtesy of @bradleyguidry via Instagram Location: Austin Executive Airport (KEDC) On the left of the photo the headline reads…